Outbound Email/LI/Calls
Send a short founder-sent sequence to 100 ICP contacts with Calendly to see if you get a positive reply rate or a couple of meetings in 7–10 days.
npx gtm-skills add marketing/solution-aware/outbound-email-li-callsOutcome
≥ 2 meetings booked in 1 week
Leading Indicators
- Reply rate
- Time to first reply
- Meetings booked
Instructions
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Run the
icp-definitiondrill to document your ideal customer profile: firmographic criteria, buyer persona, top 3 pain points, triggering events, and disqualification criteria. -
Run the
build-prospect-listdrill to source 50-100 contacts from Apollo matching your ICP. Import into Clay, run enrichment waterfall for email, LinkedIn URL, and phone number. Score and filter to top prospects. Push to Attio taggedplay:outbound-email-li-callsandlevel:smoke. -
Write a 3-step email sequence (Day 1: problem-aware opener under 80 words, Day 4: one proof point under 70 words, Day 7: breakup with Cal.com link), a 2-step LinkedIn sequence (Day 2: connection request under 200 chars, Day 5: follow-up message), and a call script referencing your email.
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Execute manually over 7 days: Day 1 emails, Day 2 LinkedIn connections, Day 3 calls to top 20, Day 4 email follow-up, Day 5 LinkedIn messages, Day 6 more calls, Day 7 breakup emails. Log every touchpoint in Attio immediately.
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Run the
threshold-enginedrill to evaluate: count meetings booked, compute reply rate by channel, measure time to first reply. Pass threshold: ≥ 2 meetings booked in 1 week. -
If PASS, document which channel drove each meeting and proceed to Baseline. If FAIL, diagnose targeting vs messaging vs channel and re-run.
Recommendations
Time
3 hours over 1 week
Play-specific cost
Free